A deceptively simple set-up: the director and his father watch a 1988 football match which the father refereed, their commentary accompanying the original television images in real time. A Bucharest derby between the country’s leading teams, Dinamo and Steaua, taking place in heavy snow, one year before the revolution that toppled Ceaușescu.
Direction
Porumboiu turns sports footage into excavation of personal and national memory.
Editing
2014 commentary layered over 1988 broadcast creates temporal vertigo.
Director
Corneliu Porumboiu
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
RO
